Mizuki



Name: Mizuki, ミズキ
Age: 26
Rank: Chūnin
Height: 179,4 cm
Weight: 69,4 kg
Birthday: October 21
Blood Type: AB
Registration #: 011141
Affiliation: Konohagakure (Hidden Leaf)
Signature Ability: Giant Shuriken, Henge no Jutsu (Transformation Technique)

Mizuki was Iruka's assistant instructor at the ninja academy. Not a very skilled ninja apparently, he devises a plan to steal the Konohagakure's forbidden scroll using Uzumaki Naruto as a fall-guy, intent upon learning the powerful forbidden Jutsu within. Mizuki's scheme goes according to plan until Iruka gets to Naruto before he does. A fight then takes place which ultimately ends with Naruto saving Iruka's life by creating hundreds of Kage Bunshin and beating Mizuki to a bloody pulp.

The manga never clarifies what became of Mizuki; in the anime, though, he makes his reappearance in episode 142. He has been imprisoned in the "Konoha Strict Correctional Facility," once called the "Special Ninja Felony Prison," where murderers and criminal ninja who have broken the law are incarcerated. Although the official investigation report into the theft of the forbidden Scroll of Sealing concluded that he acted alone, it appears he is yet another ninja working for Orochimaru. A slip of paper Mizuki attempted to smuggle into the Correctional Facility, thought by the Facility's guards to be doodling, is recognized by Tsunade to be medicinal ingredients similar to materials confiscated from Orochimaru used to perform tests on humans. In addition, Tsunade concludes that Mizuki himself would have little benefit from the sealed scroll, and speculates Orochimaru is in the background pulling Mizuki's strings. Her suspicions are confirmed when Mizuki leads a prison revolt and sends the Legendary Stupid Brothers, Fuujin and Raijin, to Orochimaru.

We discover that the strange tattoo on his arm was given to him by Orochimaru much in the way the cursed seal was given to Uchiha Sasuke, Mitarashi Anko, and the Sound Five. It is a blueprint for a device to mix different ingredients into a potion. Mizuki met his former fiance, Tsubaki, who had pleaded to Mizuki that Naruto was good, and Orochimaru was evil. He ignored her entirely, knocking her out in the process. Mizuki raids a Nara medical facility for the ingredients written on the slip of paper, and creates the potion promised to bring him much power. He drinks it, and transforms into a man-beast with great speed and power. However, Mizuki is yet another victim used by Orochimaru - Mizuki's powers dissipate quickly upon defeat and accelerate his aging so that he is an angry, shriveled, and powerless old man at the end of the filler arc.

Since these events take place in an anime filler arc, and not in the manga, it's not seen as canon.

Trivia:

-According to official databook Mizuki’s Favourite food is Sushi and his least favourite food is Ramen, probably the sign of the author's attempt to create a character to ultimately offend Naruto as much as possible. His favorite phrase is, oddly, "positive thinking".

-Mizuki's weapon, a giant Shuriken, could be the basis for Naruto's summoned weapon in Part II, which is also a giant shuriken.

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